Gomes; the Iranian filmmaker Abbas
Kiarostami, a one-man wave, has been followed by Jafar Panahi and Samira
Makhmalbaf. It remains to be seen whether Romania’s one great
filmmaker, Corneliu Porumboiu, will be able to coax that country’s
rising industry away from its run of script-bound, Euro-generic social
realism; whether Hong Sang-soo, currently the subject of a complete
retrospective at Museum of the Moving Image, will inspire other
filmmakers in South Korea; whether the Mauritanian director Abderrahmane
Sissako (who has worked often in Mali as well) and the Chadian director
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun will inspire a younger generation of filmmakers in
those countries; and whether Germany, which saw its modern tradition
broken by the death of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the emigration of
Werner Herzog, and the self-diminution-through-cultural-ambassadorship
of Wim Wenders, will again become a spawning ground for daring young
filmmakers.
What I like about
reading lists is their moral mnemonic or prompt—a reminder to see
something again or an exhortation to see something I’ve missed. The
downside is the lack of specificity to those recommendations, which is
why I’ve included, where available, links to capsule reviews, video
discussions, and blog posts about the films in question. There are
always reasons, but the prime one is desire—the desire to see a movie
again, today, now, the sense of astonishment and mystery that defies
previous viewings and pleasures that are unexhausted by them. It’s a
list that responds to the moment; I’m looking forward to kicking myself
later about films I’ve left off.
1. “In Praise of Love” (2001, Jean-Luc Godard)
2. “No Home Movie” (2015, Chantal Akerman)
3. “Like Someone In Love” (2012, Abbas Kiarostami)
4. “The World” (2004, Jia Zhangke)
5. “Hill of Freedom” (2014, Hong Sang-soo)
6. “Blackboards” (2000, Samira Makhmalbaf)
7. “The Other Half” (2006, Ying Liang)
8. “Petition” (2009, Zhao Liang)
10. “Goodbye, Dragon Inn” (2003, Tsai Ming-liang)
11. “Chouga” (2007, Darezhan Omirbaev)
12. “Wake Up, Mate, Don’t You Sleep” (2002, Miklós J
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